From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-07 10:00:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD8083F.8D40997A@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generation of permutations References: <3CD6B078.49954B6A@san.rr.com> <3CD71F4D.C29A60FC@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 12:00:47 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020790833 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 07 May 2002 12:00:33 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 12:00:33 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23653 Date: 2002-05-07T12:00:47-05:00 List-Id: > Somehow, tho, I thought that any software engineer would have had at > least one class about computability (or at least formal mathematics) and > would therefore have recognised the form of the statement. If you don't > recognise "a given set of machine instructions" as meaning any arbitrary > set of programs then, well, I guess you haven't studied much formally. Hey, I went to "Degrees R Us" :-) Still, there is a difference between "a set of machine instructions" and "any given set of machine instructions" > If you don't understand that sentence, then why argue with people who > explain it to you? If "recursively undecidable" doesn't mean anything to Actually, it's unclear who's arguing with who in this thread. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau